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Alright, so I know that I might risk taking this off-topic, but I think it is a subject that needs to be touched on, and definitely has to be reviewed, either right here and right now, or via another topic, or even as far as contacting the admins, since I dug up some of the rules and FAQs and, (after 20 minutes of searching [WG PLS]), have found that ONLY the clan recruitment section allows for bumping.
So far so good, but here comes the issue now;
The off-topic section serves the purpose of.. well, as the name suggests, talking about off-topic stuff - just general things - about the community, or just life in general.
I do understand that excessive bumping should not be allowed, and be punished, even, but as we can see in the &#34;The Forum Bar&#34; - Off-Topic Thread - &#34;5,000 Pages of random tosh&#34; - 100k Posts&#33; ( Sorry, that gibberish is not my fault - That's the formatting not allowing for the ' " ' [WG PLS]), the allowance of moderate bumping, as well as common banter and casual talk, is helping the community to keep up a forum thread for over 100k posts. That in itself should be proof enough, that the attempt to uphold a way of communication is important, which brings me to the next part;
The Discord server.
Since you, my dear WG staff [ and yes, I do cherish you guys for dealing with a fair few of weird people here], didn't think about adding a Discord server to your repertoire [WG PLS], I think it is only fair to give it a shot and give the people a fast and easy way to communicate, set up games, and just have fun in general. I think it is in your best interest to allow - No - support, and reinforce such a try to help the community thrive. We are currently 100 people, and we play together on a more or less daily basis. With a total of almost 20k people on one server ( with the assumption that ONE PERCENT of the entire forum would use the Discord) which still is a lot ( and probably would have to be split in EU1/EU2 etc, etc, etc), the community could practice a much closer co-existence.
I can already hear you scream "But it will bite with the forum and cause it to die!", so I will cut you off right now and say: No. The forum is a place for people to MANAGE things, talk in a ORGANIZED fashion, while the Discord server would be there to PLAY with people and ENGAGE directly.
With roles that can be given, with different chat-rooms, voice rooms and permissions, even the WG community could watch over it with voluntary mods, or even the admins themselves, which I think would only benefit the cause.
I could state a lot more reasons why I personally think that supporting the Discord would be a good idea, but I don't want to make this the next 50 Shades of Keyboard Warrior-ism. So instead, I would like to ask to make this post a sticky post, and have the administration have a ramble over it and see what they can do and achieve with it, as well as reviewing the official rules for the Off-Topic sub.

And if you think I am biased - Yes, I am, and I do realize that I only have very few forum posts, but I've been here since day one. I played this game back when there were only Tier 5 arties and TDs, as well as only Germany and Russia to play and a LolTraktor could block a Maus off on a road. I've seen it all happen, so if you can't take this from a "newbie" forumer, or a guy with 10k battles ( I took my breaks), or take it from a Beta-Tester.

Does discord allow for full end-to-end encryption like mumble?
Also, is this your private server and if so, where is it located

Discord itself is encrypted, you can check all features here: https://discordapp.com/features
Also it's not possible to have private servers on Discord, in other words, all servers are located on Discord's servers physically, all server owners can do is pick on which one. This server is located in Frankfurt.

Discord itself if encrypted, you can check all features here: https://discordapp.com/features
Also it's not possible to have private servers on Discord, in other words, all servers are located on Discord's servers physically, all server owners can do is pick on which one. This server is located in Frankfurt.